Asteroid that ended dinosaurs becomes focus of new museum exhibit on life’s rebirth

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Asteroid that ended dinosaurs becomes focus of new museum exhibit on life’s rebirth  The American Museum of Natural History is opening a sweeping new exhibition, "Impact: The End of the Age of Dinosaurs," on November 17, tracing how a massive asteroid strike 66 million years ago wiped out most life on Earth and set the stage for the rise of mammals - and ultimately, humans.  The exhibit combines fossil evidence, life-size models, and immersive displays to explore what curator Roger Benson calls "the worst day of the last half a billion years."  An asteroid "the size of Mount Everest changed life on Earth forever, making dinosaurs and giant reptiles that lived in the ocean, along with 75% of species on Earth, extinct," he said.  The show features striking reconstructions of prehistoric life - including an 18-foot Triceratops, a 27-foot mosasaur attacking a plesiosaur, a 15-foot-tall ancient mammal, a panoramic video recreating the moment of impact, and interactive installations that let visitors explore extinction and renewal through touchable fossils and digital experiences.  REUTERS VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net  Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer Stitcher: https://tmt.ph/stitcher  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  Soundcloud: https://tmt.ph/soundcloud   #themanilatimes #tmtnews #worldnews

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00:00Impact's the End of the Age of Dinosaurs is our new exhibit opening November 17th at

00:04American Museum of Natural History and it tells the scientific story of events that

00:09seem radically implausible otherwise if they hadn't actually happened, where 66 million

00:15years ago a giant meteorite the size of Mount Everest changed life on Earth forever, making

00:21dinosaurs and giant reptiles that lived in the ocean along with 75 percent of species on Earth

00:26extinct never to be seen again, but that actually that was a creative force that ultimately shaped

00:32the world that we live in today.

00:47These were cataclysmic events, arguably it was the worst day of the last half a billion years,

00:52but ultimately this asteroid impact was a tremendous creative force, it was followed

00:58by rapid evolutionary diversification of groups and ecosystems without which the world as we know it

01:04just wouldn't exist in this form and probably our species humans would never have evolved in the

01:09first place.

01:32Dinosaurs are super cool and I think it's because they're unlike anything we can see today and they

01:36inspire us, they tell us that the world is a changing planet you know and biodiversity is changing,

01:42they tell us of ways that ecosystems could be that are different to today. A remarkable scientific

01:49surprise or discovery of the last few decades was the consensus that birds are a group of living dinosaurs

01:57so we can see dinosaurs alive today but all of the other dinosaurs are gone and I think

02:01they're real animals they're not mythical creatures like dragons or monsters and you know it's remarkable.

02:31So

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